Four Teradata customers have been honored with the prestigious Best Practices Award from The Data Warehousing Institute (TDWI). The annual awards recognize organizations that have excelled in developing, implementing and maintaining superior data warehousing and business intelligence (BI) applications. A panel of 20 judges with expertise in data warehousing and BI selected the winners based on business impact, maturity, innovation and relevance. The following Teradata customers won in the associated categories:

Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway—Business Performance Management
Royal Bank of Canada—Enterprise Data Warehouse
Nationwide Insurance—Master Data Management
Pannon GSM—Predictive Analytics

Achieve recognition for your company's commitment to excellence in data warehousing with your Teradata solution. Visit Teradata.com/awards to nominate your company.

Recognizing the need for more efficient processes and better customer relationship management (CRM), China Everbright Bank, the country's first state-owned commercial bank, has selected Teradata to provide its first enterprise data warehouse (EDW). The bank realized last year that its existing infrastructure had too many independently operated data marts, which slowed down important business decision making.

Over the course of a year-long implementation, Teradata will help the bank integrate data from its core business, personal loan, credit risk management and accounting management systems.

Teradata is now shipping the NCR 5450 Server, which features a boost of 18% in the price/performance ratio over previous models. The new server has the ability for quick startup and maximizes system performance and throughput by supporting both 32-bit and 64-bit data warehouse solutions. "Teradata has at least a two-year lead over its competitors because we are on a relentless path to improve data warehouse performance for our customers," said Randy Lea, vice president, Teradata product and services marketing. He added that Teradata "is the only data warehouse vendor with servers that can coexist with six previous generations of servers. This investment protection of integrating the old servers with new servers outshines other vendors."

The improved performance of the NCR 5450 Server upgrades its capability to handle increased data volumes along with heavier decision support and complex mixed workloads. These mixed workloads include both deep analytics for strategic intelligence as well as the short, real-time data load and access requirements that support operational intelligence. As the business grows, the server can grow from a small powerhouse to a 4.2 petabyte-size warehouse capable of the most complex and demanding workloads for global businesses. The NCR 5450 server allows businesses to incrementally grow their data warehouse by integrating, or coexisting, new NCR servers into their older system configuration, thereby maximizing their investments.

The newly released Teradata Warehouse Miner 5.0 allows users to improve business results by empowering them with advanced analytics. Offering improved data preparation services as well as Model Deployment and Model Manager, Teradata Warehouse Miner 5.0 is designed to improve decisioning with the most recent scores and data. This release contains all the services offered by Teradata Profiler, Teradata Model Manager and Teradata Analytic Data Set (ADS) Generator—data exploration, model deployment and ADS development.

Teradata Warehouse Miner 5.0 also comes equipped with analytic modeling, including decision trees, linear and logistic regression, factor analysis, clustering and association, and data visualization capabilities. With the new suite, users can optimize their productivity, improve data quality and data latency. Businesses can reduce their costs and maximize their investment by integrating existing analytics into their data warehouse.

Teradata was named Best of Solution Provider at the architectureGOV 2006 event held in Washington, D.C. "It is an honor to be recognized by such high-level attendees for Teradata's solution and our Enterprise Reference model," says Marty Hill, director of business development for NCR Government Systems, LLC.

A forum for information exchange, the architectureGOV 2006 Strategic Intelligence Meeting provided chief information enterprise architects and federal enterprise architecture officials with the latest strategies, best practices and innovative technologies critical to achieving greater internal efficiencies, improving inter-agency collaboration, streamlining operations and maximizing the impact of IT investments. This year's program focused on drawing a direct line between sound enterprise architectures and demonstrated results.

CMP Media's Intelligent Enterprise magazine selected Teradata as one of the 12 elite global vendors that are providing critical leadership for organizations focused on becoming intelligent enterprises. The magazine's eighth annual Editors' Choice Awards named Teradata Number Four on "The Dozen" list and also the leader in customer intelligence. Teradata has been on the list for four consecutive years.

Intelligent Enterprise's "The Dozen" list is a widely respected annual evaluation by the magazine's senior editorial staff which recognizes vendors that provide exceptional vision, technology innovation and customer leadership in attaining the objectives of the intelligent enterprise.

"Teradata provides the platform for many a mighty enterprise data warehouse [EDW]," writes David Stodder, editorial director of Intelligent Enterprise's May issue. "Plus, Teradata is no stranger to real time. The company's active data warehouse concepts and business integration technology partnerships keep Teradata's customers on the cutting edge."

� Teradata Magazine-September 2006